Indictment: Teens Taped Nose, Mouth Of Woman

AROUND CENTRAL FLORIDA

December 5, 1992

Two Orlando teen-agers were indicted Friday on charges they murdered a 64-year-old woman by taping her nose and mouth while burglarizing her apartment.

Carlos Roman, 17, and Jaime Silva, 16, will be tried as adults in the Nov. 16 death of Felia Rivera. They were being held without bail in the Orange County jail Friday, charged with first-degree murder.

According to police reports, the two broke into an apartment adjoining Rivera's, then crawled through an attic and got into her apartment through the ceiling. One of the teen-agers taped Rivera's nose and mouth.